“As good as his best work” – Notes From The Fog by Ben Marcus
“Certainly shows promise” – The Incendiaries by RO Kwon
“A deeply political book” – China Dream by Ma Jian
“A tale for our times” – The Little Snake by AL Kennedy
“This is exactly what a novel should be doing in 2018” – Middle England by Jonathan Coe
“Too much going on” – Melmoth by Sarah Perry
“Testament to his legacy” – The Luckiest Guy Alive by John Cooper Clarke
“What a hoot!” – Transcription by Kate Atkinson
“Digressive and anecdotal” – The Minister and The Murderer by Stuart Kelly
October: On The Pile
“Earthy, resonant and intuitive” – Educated by Tara Westover
“Could not be more relevant” – We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta Nehisi Coates
“No more free lunch” – Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
“More in the vein of Kent Haruf” – Elevation by Stephen King
“It’s Homer meets #MeToo” – The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
“Scrappy but necessary” – The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt by Ken Krimstein
“More exciting than most of the other books I’ve read this year” – All Along the Barley by Melissa Harrison
“Creepy fun to be sure” – Lip Hook by David Hine & Mark Stafford
“Eliminate the toxic personalities” – The Laws of Human Nature By Robert Greene
“This is a book you can explode” – The Snooty Bookshop by Tom Gauld
“Pelecanos absolutely knows what he is doing” – The Man Who Came Uptown by George Pelecanos
“Almost very good indeed” – Wolf by Rachael Ball
“2018 Booker winner” – Milkman by Anna Burns
“Deeply humane” – Heimat by Nora Krug
“Mankell’s full stop” – After the Fire by Henning Mankell
“A wild ride” – Vernon Subutex 1 & 2 by Virginie Despentes
“Makes you appreciate what you have” – Cree by Una
“A book to savour”- Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
